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Cosmos Hub Speakers & Representatives
Meet our list of expert speakers who are available for media interviews and podcasts, representing the Cosmos Hub and Atom Accelerator DAO.
If you wish to arrange an interview or an appearance with one of these speakers, please contact us.
Youssef Amrani
Youssef is a core contributor to Cosmos Hub and Founder of AADAO, as well as serving on the Economic Committee of the IST stablecoin.
Previously a Community Analyst at Messari, Youssef is a self-described futurist with a passion for how exponential technologies will shape humanity’s future. Youssef firmly believes that effective decentralized governance is possible and the best path forward in an AI-driven world.
Specialty areas Youssef can interview on include: The future of blockchains and crypto, DAO governance, Decentralized AI, Stablecoins, Cosmos Hub Roadmap, Interchain Security (ICS), and the Atom Economic Zone (AEZ).
Carter Woetzel
Carter is the Founder and a Core Contributor to Shade Protocol – the leading suite of private DeFi apps in the Cosmos. Carter was previously the Marketing and Community Manager at the Secret Foundation.
With over 7 years of experience in web3, Carter is a published author and researcher, and among other things, was the author of the Secret Network whitepaper.
Specialty areas Carter can interview on include: Onchain Privacy, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Decentralized Governance, Tokenomics, Venture Capital, Go-to-Market Strategies, Product Market Fit Analysis, Cross-chain use cases, Cosmos Hub, Interchain Security (ICS), and the Atom Economic Zone (AEZ).
Jehan Tremback
Jehan Tremback is the Product Owner for the Cosmos Hub team at Informal Systems. He spends his time setting up product and technical strategy for the Cosmos Hub, researching and tweeting about the latest theories in the blockchain space, and sometimes even writing a little bit of code.
Before his work on the Cosmos Hub, he helped build Gravity Bridge, the first noncustodial Cosmos-Ethereum bridge and founded Althea, a mesh network DePin project.
Specialty areas Jehan can interview on include: DePin, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Decentralized Governance, Tokenomics, Cosmos Hub, Interchain Security (ICS), and the Atom Economic Zone (AEZ).
Better Future
Better is a Founding Member of the AADAO. He previously ran Ripple Accelerator and has over 20 years of experience in software, incubators, accelerators, and seed investing. He has a Stanford Ph.D.
Specialty areas Better can interview on include: Decentralized Governance, DAO Governance, Venture Capital, and the Future of blockchain in organizing human society.
Mark
Mark has built and sold three software companies, hosted 120+ Cosmos teams on podcasts and is passionate about helping teams succeed.
Mark has previously co-founded Wiredelta, Blockbasis and WAGMI and was the CTO at a fintech that got Visa to use blockchain. Mark firmly believes that blockchains and dApps are the antidotes to a centralized and censored internet.
Specialty areas Mark can interview on include: Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Go-to-Market Strategies, Product Market Fit Analysis, Tokenomics, web2 vs web3 and its infra, Cosmos Hub, Interchain Security (ICS), and the Atom Economic Zone (AEZ).
Reena Shtedle
Reena is a Co-Founder and Head of Business Development & DevRel at Citadel One – a leading validator in over 85 networks with 300M TVL
Reena has been in web3 since 2018, blending academic expertise in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Social Theory. Reena is also the CEO of Zomet – a web3 Shortcuts platform, and co-founded a Cosmos female empowerment entity. She was previously an investment analyst at Paradigm Research.
Specialty areas Reena can interview on include: Cosmos ecosystem and culture, Validators and Cosmos infra, Cross-chain use cases, Decentralized Governance, Product Design and UX in web3, Cosmos Hub, Interchain Security (ICS) and the Atom Economic Zone (AEZ).
Joni
Joni has over seven years of experience in cryptocurrency markets and a strong commitment to the Cosmos community. He is also the Co-Founder of Blockchain Insight Group – an organization that offers courses and support to individuals on navigating the crypto industry safely and capitalize on emerging opportunities.
Originally from a clinical research background, Joni transitioned to the blockchain space, finding greater fulfillment in educating others and contributing significantly to the Cosmos Hub through Atom Accelerator DAO.
Specialty areas Joni can interview on include: Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Go-to-Market Strategies, Product Market Fit Analysis, Cosmos ecosystem and culture, Cross-chain use cases, and memes.
Jordan Andrews
Jordan has over 8 years of experience in Business Development and Venture Investments including working with builders from over 13 ecosystems.
Jordan has previously been a Venture Associated with Republic, a Senior BD Manager with NodeReal, and the BD & Partnerships Lead at DCENTRAL Global.
Specialty areas Jordan can interview on include: Sustainable Funding, Venture Capital, Go-to-Market Strategies, Product Market Fit Analysis, and Web3 Gaming.
About AADAO & Cosmos Hub
Here’s some boilerplate copy for press use, providing a concise overview of the Cosmos Hub and Atom Accelerator DAO.
Use these descriptions to represent who we are and our impact within the Cosmos ecosystem.
Atom Accelerator DAO
Atom Accelerator DAO (AADAO) is a governance-mandated DAO of the Cosmos Hub. They have been formed and mandated to drive value for the Cosmos Hub & ATOM, supporting initiatives that either directly create economic impact or produce value that can drive its growth. From this, their current primary mandates are public grants & venture grants.
Atom Accelerator’s venture arm strategically invests in promising early-stage web3 founders and startups both within and outside of the Cosmos Hub’s ecosystem. As experts within the Cosmos ecosystem, Atom Accelerator offers expertise, guidance, and support while driving value toward ATOM.
In 2023, they deployed $3.8 million in grants to 39 recipients – resulting in, among other things – a $22m USD airdrop to the Community Pool, an AEZ Accelerator program to expand the AEZ, a successful hackathon with 42 project submissions bringing innovations to the AEZ – and many other key initiatives. Read about these in their 2023 Impact Report.
Atom Accelerator DAO Ventures
As of 2024, the Cosmos Hub provides venture funding in return for tokens and equity in promising early-stage web3 founders and startups both within and outside of the Cosmos Hub’s ecosystem. This strategy helps diversify the community’s holdings.
These venture funds are deployed through the Atom Accelerator DAO (AADAO), a governance-mandated DAO of the Cosmos Hub formed to drive value to the Hub through strategic fund deployment.
As experts within the Cosmos ecosystem, Atom Accelerator offers expertise, guidance, and support while driving value toward ATOM.
The Cosmos Hub
The Cosmos Hub is a pioneering blockchain, that gave birth to the Cosmos ecosystem and the modular Interchain Stack (aka Cosmos Stack).
Launched in 2019, the teams behind the Cosmos Hub conceptualized and funded the Interchain Stack, which today powers over 100 sovereign blockchains. Read the Cosmos whitepaper.
Today, the Cosmos Hub serves as a major economic, political and cultural center of the Cosmos ecosystem.
It continues to be the primary chain that funds public goods within the Cosmos ecosystem, is the largest liquidity exporter across the IBC-connected interchain ecosystem and through Interchain Security, the Cosmos Hub provides economic security to its Consumer Chains.
Interchain Security
Interchain Security (ICS) is a set of technologies the Cosmos Hub utilizes to provide economic security to its Consumer Chains.
Simplistically, it is the concept of one chain “providing security” to another chain, utilizing the IBC protocol for the implementation. “Providing security,” in simple terms, is when a chain forgoes having its independent validators and instead asks validators of another chain to validate its blocks.
The chain providing its validators and security is the “Provider Chain,” while the chain consuming/receiving the security is a “Consumer Chain.”
The Consumer Chain is thus effectively secured by the staked tokens on the Provider Chain, providing a portion of its block rewards to stakes of the Provider Chain.
Consumer Chains can consume Cosmos Hub’s Interchain Security in two models:
- Top-N Security – where the Consumer Chain asks the Top N% of Cosmos Hub validators to validate their chain
- Opt-In Security – where the Consumer Chain allow any Cosmos Hub validators to validate their chain (the validator opts-in), but usually sets some criteria about voting power or the number of validators it wants.
Learn more about the two models on our Interchain Security Calculator.
The Atom Economic Zone
The ATOM Economic Zone (AEZ) is an ecosystem of blockchains and dApps that bring direct value to Cosmos Hub.
The core of the AEZ is the ATOM Security Zone, which comprises blockchains and dApps secured by Cosmos Hub’s economic security through Interchain Security.
The Cosmos Ecosystem
Also known as the interchain, this is the ecosystem of over 100 chains that have been built with the Interchain Stack (Cosmos SDK, CometBFT, CosmWasm and IBC Protocol), or are otherwise connected to one-another through the IBC Protocol.
The Cosmos Hub’s initial development teams conceptualized and funded the Interchain Stack, and the Hub continues to be the primary chain that funds public goods within the Cosmos ecosystem.
To view the scope of the Cosmos ecosystem, visit Map of Zones for visualization or view the full list in the Cosmos Chain Registry (that includes chains not currently indexed by Map of Zones).
